A political science professor at Butler University asks students to disregard their American-ness, maleness, whiteness, heterosexuality, middle-class status when writing and speaking in the classroom  a practice the schools arts and sciences dean defended as a way to negate students inherent prejudices.

The syllabus of the course at Butler, a small Midwestern liberal arts institution in Indianapolis, spells out that students should use inclusive language because its a fundamental issue of social justice.

Language that is truly inclusive affirms sexuality, racial and ethnic backgrounds, stages of maturity, and degrees of limiting conditions, the syllabus states, referencing a definition created by the United Church of Christ.

The syllabus of the class, called Political Science 201: Research and Analysis, goes on to ask students to write and speak in a way that does not assume American-ness, maleness, whiteness, heterosexuality, middle-class status, etc. to be the norm. It is taught by a black, female professor.

In an interview with The College Fix, Jay Howard, dean of Butlers College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, denied this practice essentially presumes every student who walks through the door is a racist or misogynist.

He said students must be told not to assume such prejudices because such assumptions are ingrained into the culture and remain there until questioned. With that, a liberal arts education questions these assumptions, and such questions can make for uncomfortable situations, he said.

A black female professor at Butler University can be expected to have voted for a black moslem leftwingtard fanatic ~ andre carson ~ he's the guy who proposed reorganizing american education along the lines of a madrassa.

This particular professor did something other than serious study to get a job at the school.

If you are paying to send a kid to college or are contributing to your Alma Mater you are enabling this crap. It is nearly universal in higher education. Even sending your children to a religious school is no guarantee, as many of them are thoroughly secularized.

Another religious found university taken over by the radical leftist (i.e.communits). I wonder if the seminary portion is even allow to teach about Christianity and the tenants of its faith, other than to blame it for everything bad in the world?

Butler’s School of Religion, established in 1924, became independent in 1958 and is currently known as the Christian Theological Seminary.[8]

Butler University was founded by members of the Disciples of Christ church, though it was never controlled by the church.[8] The university charter called for “a non-sectarian institution free from the taint of slavery, offering instruction in every branch of liberal and professional education.”[8] The university was the first in Indiana and the third in the U.S. to admit both men and women. Butler was the first university in the United States to endow a chair designated specifically for a woman, the Demia Butler Chair (endowed in 1869). Catharine Merrill, the first person to hold the chair, became the second woman named to be a professor in an American university.[8]

At least if they have to disavow “American-ness”, the don’t have to acknowlege any particular authority of Barak Obama. He’s just somebody that couldn’t figure out there’s no such thing as a “shovel-ready job”.

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posted on 11/28/2012 6:29:48 AM PST
by tacticalogic
("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)

“He said students must be told not to assume such prejudices because such assumptions are ingrained into the culture and remain there until questioned.”

Okay, but the same liberal relativists tell us that every culture has prejudices, so we can’t judge any other culture because of our own ingrained prejudices that we CANNOT set aside. So which is it? Can we leave our cultural prejudices at the door with a simple conscious choice (which means we can make moral judgements about other cultures), or is that impossible (which means students can’t comply with this new rule)?

The syllabus of the class, called Political Science 201: Research and Analysis, goes on to ask students to write and speak in a way that does not assume American-ness, maleness, whiteness, heterosexuality, middle-class status, etc. to be the norm.

Sic semper classical literature...

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posted on 11/28/2012 6:35:07 AM PST
by Flycatcher
(God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)

Find one of the good ones. May I suggest Colorado Christian University in Denver? Fabulous Christian education and home of the Western Conservative Union. Just had Stossel do a full day seminar for the business students. They have nationally known conservatives speak to and put on seminars for the students all the time. I’m jealous of my son - almost makes me want to go back to school....

And an American HS diploma is about as useful as Kleenex-less so, really, because it is much rougher.

Our education system is a disaster. If it were making cars instead of educated adults the vehicles would be fantastically expensive but only a minority of them could attain normal driving speeds. Many basic features would not be offerred while dubious and deleterious features would come standard. Many would be dangerous to operate. A sizeable fraction would spontaneously self-destruct. No one in their right mind would buy one.

Yet we keep sending our kids to known dysfunction-breeding factories, because it is "our civic duty." Or something.

Sounds like a great school, today. Tomorrow is another matter. The opposition actively infiltrates and subverts any institution that they see as a threat. I've seen this happen to several schools that I attended or planned to attend.

Trust but verify. Repeatedly verify. And always have an action plan to get your son out. Bad schools ruin people for life. You cannot be too paranoid on his behalf.

I'm an Alabama alumnus and even at the University the political correctness has long been pervasive. I recommended that the Tuscaloosa campus change its name to the University of Alabama at Calcutta (its not there but that name would better reflect its multicultural mission).

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posted on 11/28/2012 7:04:43 AM PST
by Monterrosa-24
(...even more American than a French bikini and a Russian AK-47.)

Being a white male particularly if you have a conservative point of view or are Christian and especially Catholic makes you a focus for derision. Our mixed race metrosexual President is the new role model for the modern male.

Being that my old stomping grounds is in Indy, not surprised with Butler. It was a good school at one time but it has gotten so liberal in the last 20 to 30 years. One interesting thing was a few years before I packed and moved to Colorado back in 1995, there was a talk given by an eco-feminist woman. Kind of funny, a friend and I went there and stood outside the door. She was constantly berating men in general and conservative folks. We made some smart-ass comments and we got basically chased out. My friend made a comment that no man should be sitting in there taking it. Found out later that Butler Security was looking for us LOL. Not long afterward, Butler Security was abolished and came in as a Police Department.

Well I guess when history shows a group cannot compete because they are inferior their only course of action is to brainwash those who have beaten them in the battle of ideas and accomplishments to surrender their identity.

In creation “we all be equal” /sarc/ but we sure as hell are not equal in outcome.

You posted this from the article: Our language doesnt make it easy to write in ways that are inclusive, Howard said. We dont have a generic singular, I mean we have he and she. There is no pronoun that is gender-neutral there.
How about we just start referring to everyone as it.

And commented with, “How about we just start referring to everyone as it.

Ayn Rand’s “Anthem” already addresses this. In about the 4th paragraph we are introduced to the main character, “Our name is Equality 7-2521..”

Here is a description from Amazon that sends chills up my spine:

“In Anthem, Rand examines a frightening future in which individuals have no name, no independence, and no values. Equality 7-2521 lives in the dark ages of the future where all decisions are made by committee, all people live in collectives, and all traces of individualism have been wiped out. Despite such a restrictive environment, the spark of individual thought and freedom still burns in him—a passion which he has been taught to call sinful. In a purely egalitarian world, Equality 7-2521 dares to stand apart from the herd—to think and choose for himself, to discover electricity, and to love the woman of his choice. Now he has been marked for death for committing the ultimate sin. In a world where the great “we” reign supreme, he has rediscovered the lost and holy word—”I.”

Back in the day (1958-59) I was fortunate to be a student in Professor Jackson’s freshman English class at Tufts University. The title of the course was “What is God and What is Man?” We read and discussed writings by Plato, Socrates, Thomas Paine, John Stuart Mill and St. Thomas Aquinas among others. When one student objected to reading one Protestant author (I forget who) because he was on the Catholic List of non approved writers, he was told that if he didn’t want a Liberal Arts education, then he should have gone to a Catholic University. It was the best course I had in college. I wonder if it is given today.

And all the non-white survivors could live in utopias modeled on their present blueprints of Detroit, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Haiti, etc, with no evil white people around to oppress them (and force them to follow us when we “white flight” it out of areas), no evil white culture to make them feel bad-no more Notre Dames, Beethovens, Rembrandts, etc. No more money wasted on ocean or space exploration. Wouldn’t life be grand. I’m sure glad, as an evil white person, I wouldn’t be here to live it.

You hit the nail,on the head. The “funny” thing is, when the whites are all gone, everywhere will be Detroit at best (built by whites, blacks unable to even maintain existing infrastructure), or Zimbabwe at worst (once the breadbasket of Africa, now a net importer of food). God forbid any other place models itself on the Congo (never-ending warfare, cannibalism, mutilation, child rape, wtch doctors, etc).

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